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Hits package from the original 'Pop Idol', celebrating 20 years since he won the competition. Includes that massive initial #1 "Evergreen", plus "Light My Fire", "Leave Right Now", "The Long And Winding Road", "You And I", "Your Game", "Fridays Child", "Daniel" and many more... A 20 track single CD and double LP set pressed on black vinyl, both of which include 2 new songs, plus a deluxe 2CD set containing 13 bonus songs of session tracks/remixes/demo's. Upcoming nationwide UK tour dates to promote this release. TV promo includes The One Show, Sunday Brunch, BBC Breakfast, Lorraine, ITV Jubillee Street Party, Britain's Got Talent and more TBC. Radio promo includes Zoe Ball interview, Jo Wiley session, R2 playlist, Magic FM and ILR support. Extensive coverage across all press.

Some lucky folk managed to bag a copy of this when it was released as part of the Screamadelica 30th Anniversary 12" Singles Box. Suffice to say, many didn't. It's also probably a given to point out the British and global music scenes are still reeling from the untimely and sudden passing of Andrew Weatherall, a studio mastermind and club DJ icon who managed to influence everyone from ambient and techno heads to indie kids, classical fans and heads in just about any other sonic avenue you care to mention. Arguably, though, his most beloved work was around the Screamadelica era, carving out a landmark crossover album from Primal Scream's original material, making stars out of everyone involved and timeless, decade-spanning tracks from singles like 'Come Together' and 'Loaded'. 'Shine Like the Stars' brought that album to a close in spectacular, trippy, emotive style, and has never left our hearts since.

Third studio album by American singer/songwriter/producer. Originally released on September 30th 2016. In a statement Solange described the album as "a project on identity, empowerment, independence, grief and healing." Features the iconic record 'Cranes In The Sky' which won the Grammy for Best R&B Performance. Exploring prejudice and blackness, the record is thankfully the journal we don't get the time to write, the conversations we don’t get to have and the exclamations we’re too tired to repeat.

a gatefold heavy card board sleeve and heavy vinyl !! remastered and recut from original masters !!! the artwork will be true to the original (including textured covers and embosses where appropriate) and will feature lyrics, and additional sleeve notes and artwork !!!

Released via Columbia Records - new 15 track album is the masked singers follow up to 2019’s 'Pony' and the 2020 EP 'Show Pony'. 'Bronco' will be released in chapter digital installments before arriving in full on April 8th on this 2 LP black vinyl set. UK promo trip. Marketing activity across all media outlets.

Seventh studio album from acclaimed/multi platinum Canadian rock outfit, released via Music For Nations/ Sony Music. 2015's 'Human' marked the group’s second straight #1 slot on the Billboard Top Hard Rock Albums Chart as well as their fourth consecutive debut in Top 20. It spawned two #1 singles 'Painkiller' and 'I Am Machine', signaling their 13th overall and 5th consecutive number ones on the U.S. Active Rock Radio chart. THe band continue to average over 4 million monthly listeners on Spotify (remaining one of the most listened to rock bands in the world). A 12 track album pressed on standard black vinyl and CD formats. Forthcomiong UK live dates. Promo/marketing activity across all media outlets.

RCA release - 'Complete' edition of the third studio album from UK alternative rock band. Comprises the 11 track original album from 2020 with the addition of the 5 songs from the band's 'Moral Panic II' EP (2021). Beautifully presented in a gatefold sleeve and pressed on transparent plum coloured vinyl.

Spider-Man is an established worldwide cultural phenomenon and this movie is already breaking records and exceeding all expectations - Spider-Man: No Way Home is set to be the film of 2021. The thrilling soundtrack by Oscar® and GRAMMY® winning composer, Michael Giacchino, contains the infamous Spider-Man theme, beloved of fans, alongside other popular melodies from the wide-ranging MCU/Spider-Man universe.

Deluxe 16 track vinyl format of the debut album that was released on CD on January 28th. Single 'Wilder Days' peaked Top 5 in the national airplay chart in early January 2022. Having made her UK debut as part of the C2C Festival in March 2022 Morgan has just announced a headline UK tour for June this year. Marketing.

Signed to Columbia Records, Maren Morris is one of the leading country music voices of her generation. The 4 x platinum selling 'The Bones' topped the US Billboard country songs chart for an incredible 19 weeks in 2020. She has since won multiple awards. This album is the follow up to 2019's critically acclaimed 'Girl'. This is an 11 song album available on standard LP and CD. Strong support at radio, with plays across R2, Absolute, Virgin and ILR specialist shows. Ads, features, interviews and reviews across all press. Online/social media activity. Poster campaign and database mailout.

This eponymous Sony Classical debut album is a creative melting pot of different styles of classical music. The album features new compositions contributed by British composer and pianist Alexis Ffrench, Dutch neo classical pianist Annelie, French pianist/composer Alban Claudin, Oscar winning British composer Rachel Portman, British Cellist/composer Julian Lloyd Webber and American film composer Jacob Shea. Additionally the album features original compositions by Clara Schumann and Amy Beach as well as several unique new arrangements of some of the most famous classical melodies by Pjotr Tchaikovsky, Eric Satie and Frédéric Chopin. Specialist promo/marketing activity. 180gm vinyl and CD.

Reissue of The White Stripes second album (originally released in June 2000), which found the band recording in the comfortable confines of Jack White's Third Man Studios, then housed on the ground floor of his house in Southwest Detroit. The on point covers of Son House and Blind Willie McTell pair wonderfully with both the minimal downtempo somber numbers and the maximum energy explosions of unadulterated power. A 13 track album pressed on 180gm black vinyl and housed in a tip on sleeve. Both releases will have promo/marketing activity.

Recorded during the Midwest winter of 1999, the White Stripes debut LP stands alone as the most raw, unpolished and 'Detroit' sounding records The White Stripes would release. On this reissue the vinyl is cut directly from the original 1/4" master tapes, pressed on 180gm black vinyl and housed in a sturdy, beautiful tip on sleeve. A 17 track single album.

We Are Vinyl' reissue - 8 track single black 180gm vinyl with digital download code. Marketing.

2 LP format of the album that was released on CD on January 2022. The album arrives ahead of a European tour (including the UK) in early 2022.

Green vinyl format of the hits packge that was released in 2021. Continued marketing.

Limited 2 LP set pressed on opaque orange vinyl of the forth studio album that was released on CD in 2021.

Sony CMG label release. Pitch perfect whether hitting magnificent highs or sliding into sultry depths, Judi’s voice recalls some of music’s great divas. The majority of this album was recorded in London or Milan between 2019 and 2021, with all fifteen songs written or co written by Judi. Other notable collaborators include Reuben James (John Legend, Nile Rodgers),Tim Baxter (Jasmine Thompson, Muse) and Tom Excell, leader of the UK’s acclaimed afro jazz collective Nubiyan Twist. Specialist promo/marketing activity across all media outlets.

Abubakar Baker Shariff-Farr (born 12th February 1994) is better known as Bakar, a British singer/songwriter/model. Known for his experimental indie rock style he made his professional solo debut with the mixtape 'Badkid' in May 2018, subsequently releasing the extended play 'Will You Be My Yellow?' in September 2019. 'Nobody's Home' is a 14 song full length album released via Black Butter Recordings. Standard black vinyl and standard CD. Ads, features, interviews and reviews across all press. Specialist radio support with spot plays, sessions and ad campaign. Strong streaming support across all platforms. Online/social media activity.

• Pete Tong shares new Ibiza Classics collaborations EP on 12” Vinyl, Pete Tong + Friends: Ibiza Classics, released on Ministry of Sound.

• Essential sounds of the White Isle reimagined with Kölsch, Riton, Tale Of Us, ARTBAT, Eats Everything, Vula, Becky Hill, Jules Buckley and more

• “Collaborating with the Heritage Orchestra and GRAMMY-winning conductor and composer Jules Buckley has been a match made in Balearic heaven.” – Mixmag

• Latest single Love Can’t Turn Around has spent a month on the Radio 2 playlist including two weeks on the Radio 2 A List (Jan 2022).

• Further Radio support for the EP including from tastemakers Radio 1 Danny Howard, Sarah Story, Pete Tong, Charlie Hedges

• Pete Tong completed his legendary Ibiza Classics tour in November & December 2021 including dates in Brighton, Manchester, Birmingham, Nottingham and two nights at London’s The O2. He has already announced his dates for 2022

Legacy Recordings, the catalog division of Sony Music Entertainment, will celebrate the 20th anniversary of international superstar Shakira's first English language album with the release of Laundry Service
(Washed and Dried) (an expanded digital edition featuring four bonus tracks new to DSPs) on Friday, November 12 and a special, yellow opaque 12” vinyl edition to follow on 17th December in the US and
the UK/EU on 7th January 2022.

The tracklist for the vinyl mirrors the original tracklist from 2001, however the newly expanded 20th anniversary digital edition of Shakira's Laundry Service (Washed and Dried) premieres the previouslyunreleased remix of "Whenever, Wherever" from Shakira's electrifying halftime performance at Super Bowl LIV (February 2, 2020), the previously unreleased "Whenever, Wherever (Pepsi Super Bowl LIV Halftime Show Remix),“. Laundry Service (Washed and Dried) also offers three more bonus tracks newly available on DSPs: "Whenever, Wherever" (Sahara remix), "Underneath Your Clothes" (acoustic version) and "Objection (Tango)" (Afro-punk version).

Laundry Service generated six singles including the worldwide #1 smash "Whenever, Wherever" and the subsequent hits "Underneath Your Clothes," "Objection (Tango)," "Te Dejo Madrid," and "Que Me Quedes Tú" and "The One." Laundry Service topped the charts around the world in countries including Australia,
Austria, Belgium, Canada and Switzerland, while entering the Top 5 in other countries such as Argentina, France, Germany, Spain and the United Kingdom. Stateside, Laundry Service peaked at #3 on the Billboard 200 chart. Laundry Service has sold 18 million copies around the world, making it one of the top-selling
albums of the 21st century.

In 2022, the Vienna Philharmonic's New Year's Concert could once again take place in front of an audience. However, 2G-plus rules and an FFP2 mask requirement applied throughout the Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde building in Vienna. Standing room was not offered this year and the number of seats in the Golden Hall was limited to 1,000.

Daniel Barenboim performed with the Vienna Philharmonic as a young pianist as early as 1965, and he has also conducted them since 1989. He already took the podium at the tradition-steeped New Year's Concert in 2009 and 2014. Barenboim's engagements as head of the Berlin State Opera Unter den Linden and the Staatskapelle Berlin, as founder and director of the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra, and as a pianist show him to be a true musical citizen of the world. As such, he is also an exceptionally good fit for Vienna's world-class orchestra and the message of the New Year's Concert: hope, friendship and peace for the whole world.

At the start of the new year, the Vienna Philharmonic once again presented a cheerful, upbeat and contemplative program of symphonic waltzes, polkas and marches by the Strauss dynasty and its contemporaries. The 2022 program showed a clear reference to the fantastic and fairytale-like. In addition to the phoenix, a siren and an indeterminate number of brownies and nymphs, there was also Johann Strauss' waltz "One Thousand and One Nights".

Six pieces had their premiere at a New Year's concert in 2022. The "Phoenix March", the Polka mazur "The Siren" and the Polka française "Nymph Polka" were performed by Josef Strauss. Eduard Strauss was represented with the quick polka "Kleine Chronik", Carl Michael Ziehrer with the waltz "Nachtschwärmer" and Joseph Hellmesberger with the character piece "Heinzelmännchen" among the repertoire novelties.

There is the 50th anniversary of the UNESCO World Heritage Convention to celebrate in 2022, which Austria also joined 30 years ago. In the intermission film of the concert, the twelve Austrian World Heritage sites showed themselves from their best side. Schönbrunn Palace in Vienna, on the World Heritage List since 1996, was also the setting for the ballet interlude with ten dancers from the Vienna State Ballet to the waltz "One Thousand and One Nights." The second performance was created at the Spanish Riding School, which has been designated as a UNESCO Intangible World Heritage Site since 2015. Eight magnificent Lipizzaner stallions and their riders demonstrated the high school of classical horsemanship to Josef Strauss's "Nymph Polka".

The phoenix, a very special bird from ancient Greek mythology, burns at the end of its life cycle, only to rise again from its ashes. The Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra paid tribute to it twice. The concert began with the "Phoenix March", followed by the waltz "Phoenix Swing". Such a concert opening - with a march and a waltz - should be a sign. It is to be hoped that a rebirth and renewal in the new year can really take place.

The highly anticipated debut album from Franco American conductor/composer/arranger. Uèle Lamore specializes mixing orchestral and acoustic textures with modular, electronic and synthetic elements. Not just affiliated to classical music, she likes to dive into the fields of composition and arranging through many musical styles: electro, new wave, rock, techno, minimal, neo-soul and many more that are left to explore leaving an infinite range of possibilities. The ten album tracks were composed and produced by Uèle Lamore herself and include 3 features from English speaking artists including Gracy Hopkins, who featured on the critically acclaimed The First Tree. Previous collaborations include Radiohead, Frank Ocean, Jonny Greenwood, Steve Reich, Terry Riley, Thom Yorke, Mica Levi, Beck and many more. Promo/marketing activity.

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Debut studio album by legendary American singer/songwriter/artist. Originally released on November 10th 1975 by Arista Records. When she emerged Smith's music was hailed as the most exciting fusion of rock and poetry since Bob Dylan. Produced by John Cale with a Robert Mapplethorpe cover - a raw combination of poetry, shamanistic chant and rock ‘n’ roll thrills.